Mop.



No. 639,479. Patented Dec. 19, 1899.

V. WINHUIST.

(Application filed Apr. 26, 1899.)

VICTOR VVINQUIS'I, OF ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS.

MOP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 639,479, dated December 19, 1899.

Application filed April 26, 1899. Serial No. 714,559. (No model.)

To ctZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, VICTOR WIN UIs'r, a citizen of the United States, residing at Rockford, in the county of \Vinnebago and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Mops, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to make a mop of simple construction in which a removable section clamps the rubber scraper to the main portion.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a top face view of my improved mop. Fig. 2 is an under face View of the same. Fig. 3 is a vertical central section.

To a handle 1 is secured the main section, composed of the transverse semicylindrical portion 2, joined to a bar 3, extending parallel therewith, by the end sections 4, having upturned edges 5. From the bar 3 extends a socket 6, embracing the handle 1, and from the under face of this bar extends a lengthwise rib 7, having two notches 8 formed therein.

The removable section is composed of the semicylindrical portion 9, from which extend two arms 10, joined together, forming a projection 11. The arms 10 are of a size to lie in the recesses 8 in the rib 7 of the bar 3.

The mopping material-4n this instance, a rubber band 12is placed on the semicylindrical bar 2 of the main section, and the semicylindrical bar 9 of the removable sec tion is placed over the rubber band, and the end 11 of the arms 10, is forced to lie against the under faceof the handle, and a ferrule 13 is slipped over the end 11, and as the arms 10 lie in the recesses these points act as a fulcrum over which the arms press, thereby holding the rubber band in the position shown at Fig. 3.

A cloth or scrubbing-brush can be held between the semicylindrical surfaces.

I claim as my invention- A mop composed of a main portion having a semicylindrical bar and a bar extending paralled therewith connected to the semicylindrical bar by end sections, and a handle connected to the parallel bar, a removable section having'a semicylindrical bar and two arms extending therefrom, and a ring holding the arms in connection with the handle.

VICTOR WINQUIST.

Witnesses:

A. O. BEHEL, E. BEHEL. 

